On this date in 1974, an arbitrator rules in favor of Jim "Catfish" Hunter in his dispute with A's owner Charlie Finley making Hunter a free agent.
"On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the A's came up to me and said, 'When you were six years old, you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat that back to me.'"
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